The evening world. Newspaper, February 19, 1921, Page 1

ye erty Street on four trains from Phila- VOL. LXI. NO. 21,668—DAILY. by. ‘New Copyright, 1921, Co. (The The Press Publishing York World), “Circulation Books Open to All.” | NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1921. rine tes ee PRICE THREE CENTS CITY INSPECTS Al] |VALUE OF A. T. WHITE ESTATE. TS DAUGHTER 1S’ sox Mein FOR VATICAN 1 FOREN MAL 10 KEEP OUT TYPHUS Fumigation of Sacks and Con- tents to Follow Discovery | of Vermin. | aes | (MORE ARRIVALS HELD. Fifty-Three of 901 Immigrants in Last Twenty-Four Hours Found Unclean. Inspection of all foreign mails was added to-day to the precautions taken by Health Commissioner Copeland to | Prevent the entrance of typhus car- tiers into New York. Sanitary inspectors were stationed | in the four-story building at West nd Morton Streets which the Gov- ernment uses as its foreign mail branch and looked over all arriving eacks. At the first sign of vermin it ts the intention to empty the sacks, under Federal supervision, in the presence of witnesses, and fumigate @acks and mail, then put the mail in| Rew sacks. Commissioner Copelan® announced be-day that in the last twenty-four hours his men hed examined a total | of 901 immigrants landed at this port, | Boston and Philadelphia, and had found 53 of them vermin-intested. ‘These were sent to Willard Parker Hospital, where they will be cleansed | and their clothing and baggage fumi- pated. Working steadily from 12.30 last night until 7 this morning, inspectors ender the direction of Supervising Inspector James H. Elson examined 884 immigrants who arrived at Lib- a, They had landed at the lat- er port from a European steamship and came mostly from Naples and Genoa. Of these immigrants twelve women ind eight men were vermin- infested, and they were sent to the hospital to have themselves, their baggage and clothing fumigated. Forty immigrants from Boston were examined at the Pennsylvania Sta- tion, and the inspectors detained six men, three women and three boys. At the Barge Office seven infocted immigrants, one an infant, were found out of a total of 434 examined, and at the Grand Central Station 43 were ex- amined and 14 detained. State health oMcers deciared in Al- any to-day the departmeat is able to check any threatened spread of typhus. Ne new cases have been reported in the State since the discovery of three typhus sufferers in Cortland yester- day. The White Star !incr Celtic from Liverpool docked i the Chelsea pier with 180 first cabin, 400 second class and 1,490 steeraze passengers. All passengers of all classes were held up 17 minutes while Uhe Health In spectors went o ing special attention trom disease centres er the manifest, giv to passengers in Burope. Only one passenger, a gir. who ts citizen of the United States, was ‘Rermin infested. and she was cleansed on the ship, All the passengers wer allowed to land Dr. Copeland said all over the ceived approving here in the war announced all b coaches of trains w mow are being fumigated before being put into use again 33 AUTOMOBILES DESTROYED | messages from been measures country had re taker. He rooms and da by immigrants against typhus CAMDEN, day destroyed the go Brothers, ut Haddon Heights. three automobiles were ruined lous {9 estimated at $75,000. Byaul Brothers conduct a mumber of grocery stores, and the flames threat- ened the Haddon Heights store of the and the worth While Skating, Gave Charitable Institu Mrs. Annie Jean Van Sinderen of No, 42 Remsen Street, Brooklyn torday was made the sole beneficiary of the estate of her father, Alfred T. White, long known as “Brooklyn's First Citizen.” He was drowned Jan. 29 while ska\ing at Central Valley, N. ¥. Although the estate is said to be $15,000,000, the will, admitted to probate by Surrogate Wingate in Brooklyn, roughly appraised it as “real estate valued at upward of $10,- 000 and personal estate upward of $25,000." He had made provisions before his death for charitable institutions, the will stated, and named as executors his brother, William Augustus White, and his son-in-law, Adrian Van Sinderen, Mr. White was widely known as champion of model tenements. Bequests to the following institu- tions, for which the Brooklyn Trust Company is trustee, were made dur- ing Mr, White's lifetime. Brooklyn Board of Charities, $168, 000; Visiting Nurses’ Association of New York, $168,000; Brooklyn Chil- dren's Aid Society, $40,000; Brooklyn Society for Prévention of Cruelty to Children, $30,000; Brooklyn Hospital, $17,000; Graham House for Old La« dies, $17,400; First Unitarian Congre- gational Society, of Brooklyn, $26,000 t. Christopher's Hospital for Ba- bies, $30,000, and the Long Island His- torical Society, $3,000, The Trust Company announced that Mr. White made many other bene- factions which at his request were not announced.’ The total amount of his benefactions, it was said, would be more than $1,000,000. Mr. White's estate was estimated by a friend to be more than $15,000,000. Mr. White was born in Brooklyn in 1846, CARUSO EATS WELL; HE WANTS TO SIT UP Has Eggs and Coffee for Breakfast , and Gives Every Sign of Progress. Mr. Cafliso has continued to im- prove. Although the fever has not subsided, his course is pro- g in a satisfactory manne! (Signed) ERDMANN, LAMBERT, EVANS, STELLA, MURRAY. ‘This, the latest and most hopeful bulletin yet issued from Enrico Ca- ruso's sick room, was announced by the attending physicians at 10.45 @clook this forenoon Bruno Zirato, Caruso's secretary, told the newspaper men at noon to- day that the singer had partaken of eggs and coffee this morning and seemed brighter and more cheerful than In many days. “There was a little color in his face,” he added, “and his eyes were livelier. He asked the physicians whether he might not sit up a while, but they refused to listen to this.” GOES TO FUNERAL OF NEPHEW; DIES Bronx Retired Marble ‘Dealer Ex- pires Suddenly Before Attend- ing Services for Kin. James Livingston, a retired marble dealer of No. 1129 Lindley Avenue. the Bronx found dead to-day a the late home of his nephew Robert S. Hahn, No, 76 West 16th Street, Whitestone, LL Mr. gahn dled last Thursday, and was to*be buried to day followin services at St. Luke's vin Catholic Chureh. Mr. tive ton, who was elmhty-three years trrived at the Hahn home last ttend the service. 2 was found dead by Mrs, George Raldwin, sister of Hahn. Dr Robert A. Adams said death was due to heart disease. Mr. Livingston's wife died several years ago. M \concern. The fire originated in a gaso- tine tank in the rear of an automobile which exploded. Hahn was fifty-five years old, and was head of the upholstery depart- ment at Stem Brothers, Manhattan. | “Brooklyn’s First Citizen,” Who Was Drowned a Million in Trust to tions During Life. HH CALLACITIZEN POLICE STATIONS But Sergt. Brophy Was Awake and Got on the Jump After His Trousers and Shirt. The contempt in which criminals seem to hold the police these days has |reached its maximum expression, ac- cording to a report forwarded to-day from the West 100th Street Station. It announced nothing less than an attempt to rob the station itself, Sergt. Brophy turned in on reserve last evening in the top floor dormi- tory of the station. the room and just as he dozed off he was awakened by the creak of a locker hinge. Rousing himself, he saw a@ man taking trousers and shirt | from a locker in which Brophy had a He was alone in moment before placed them. He called to know who was there and a voice answered that it was |“Officer O'Brien,’ and it's all right.” But Brophy recognized his clothes and started wp. The man said he was only putting some clothes away, but he crossed the room and began mounting a ladder leading to the roof. There Brophy grabbed him, The man said he was Edwin Whalen, a chauffeur, of No, 230 Hast 124th Street. It was discovered by the men in the station that he had once been a patrolman attached to that very precinct and had been “broke nine years ago, The police said his record showed that he had ‘been arrested five times between 1914 and 1917, In the latter year, they said, he was sent to the Peni- tentiary for extortion, He was ar- raigned in the West Side Court MAIL ROBBERS USED AIRPLANE, IS THEORY Three Places Near Toledo Report Strange Machine—No Arrest Made Yet. TOLEDO, Fek. 19.—Officers gating the holdup of a mall truck the post office here early Thursday considering a theory that the five investi- at dits carried their huge loot away the city in an airplane Residents of the West End repor having sighted a plane a short Um after the robbery and from Maumee vil lage, on the outskirts of Toledo, came u similar report. A despatch fram Lim said a plane not in the Government mail service alighted there for a short time. m. Ustimates of the loot taken when eleven sacks were seized and whisked away in an automobile or inue to. be indefinite. Offic stil mate trat the amount was $400,000 or more. so far no arrests have been made NEW YORK GIRL SWIMS TO RECORD relda Bleibjrey Create Mark for W Sydney me is tod n for . New South Wales, Fel 4 Bleibtrey of New York or 4 new’ swimming recor the 100 yards here to-day, covering tne distance in 1 minute 42-5 seconda, She Clipped four-fiths ‘of a second from the old record of 1 minute 51-5 seconds made by herself in Philadelphia in July, for we ROBBED BY EX-GOP! ‘DOUGHERTY SAILS BENADE CARDINAL |Crowds Cheer Philadelphia Archbishop as He Leaves Ho- boken on Nieuw Amsterdam. |K. OF C. SENDS ESCORT. |Special Train Carries Prelate | and Party From Quaker City to Liner’s Pier. Thousands of Catholics gathered at Hoboken to-day to bid bon voyage to | Archbishop Dennis J. Dougherty of Philadelphia, who sailed for Rom: shortly before 1 o'clock on the Nieuw | Amsterdam to be made a Cardinal. Three bundred clergymen and lay- men from Philadelphia were in the Archbishop's party, which came on the Holland-American pier in a speciat train, the engine of which was dec- orated with bunting of white and yel- low, the Papal oolors, and United States flags. Hundreds of persons in the crowd on the pier wore red car- nations and white and yellow rib- bons and cheered lustily whem the train rolled It Acting Mayor Gustave Bach and Police Commissioner Bernard Mc- Feely of Hoboken, met the marty, and more than a score of policemen were needed to keep bac kthe crowd, many of whom insisted on kissing the Arch- bishop's ring. Archbishop Dougherty went tmme- diately to the deck of the liner, where he held an impromptu reception, dur- ing which he sald he was deeply grateful to the people of the country and the newspapers for their cordial- ity toward him. The New York Diocese was repre- sented by Mgrs Lavelle, Chidwic’, Bdwards, Livingston and Dunn, all of whom came aboard the ship with scores of other persons. Their leave taking delayed the doparture of the vessel, scheduled to sail at noon. In the party to see the Archbishop off were two of his nieces, Miss Dor- othy McCormick and Mrs. John Far- ren, The Philadelphia delegates, prior to the departure of the Nieuw Amsterdam, sent a cable to the Pope expressing their appreciation of his decision t omake Archbishop Dough- erty a Cardinal, ‘The clerical escort to Rome of the Cardinal-elect includes Mgr, Michael J Crane, Vicar General of the Philadel- phia archdiocese; the Very Kev, Joseph A. Whitaker, Chancellor, and eight rac- tors of the archdiocese. Three laymen, Dr. William Long, John J. Coyle and Joseph F. Gallagher, alao will make the trip. A mpecial escort of 150 fourth degree mombers of the Knights of Columbus escorted the Archbishop's party to the station in Philadelphia, where he board- ed a special train for New York. The Archbishop waa met at Cliy by a delegation of friends who once lived In his old-home-town of Homeaville, Pa, headed by John J Mudiey of No, 636 Carlton Avenue, Hrookiyn, ‘The Knights of Columb representatives wore headed by ards John J. O'Neil who came kissod the Archbishop ring and he posed on the statlon plate form for the movies. JURY HOLDS BOOZE OF NO LEGAL VALUE Js Who Stole It Con- Jersey Police Of vicled for the Theft of the Barrels, Worth $20. | OSWEGO. N. Y., Feb. 14. pice Cap jain Charles N. idlynd, Patrolmaf Je woy and Edward Dr ARCHBISHOP AS HE SAILED FOR ROME TO GET RED HAT ARCH ESHOP Ob. J DSLGHERTY. = MAIL GAR HELD UP TWO TAKEN AFTER REVOLVERBATTL Three Wounded in Fight as Autos Race a Mile—Loot Put at $300,000. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn, Feb. 19.— Two men believed to have robbed the mail car of the North Coast Limited on the Northern Pacific of $89,000 last night were taptured Little Falls, Minnesota, to-day after a run- ning revolver fight with deputies. One of the deputies and one of the alleged bandits was wounded in the at fight. C. EF. Strong, a mail clerk, was wounded when he attempted to resist the bandits. Deputies in automobiles moet the two men at. the outskirts of Little Falls, , They opened fire when or- dered to halt and the cunfire lasted while the automobiles raced over a mile, The loot was fot recovered. A mask and several weapons were found in the automobile in which the two men were attempting to escape. The accused men gave the names On the eve of his weddi : ' left with another. of Buck Allen and Bob Ford The tra s held up at Baiteys,| Loomis Street, Several pawn tickets Minn. The bandits had boarded the mail|and letters were found jn bis posses- at St. Cloud, Stronz wan forced to| sion, On the back of one of the let bind the other two clerks and then waa| ters was scrawled the name “Loretta” put in a locker. When he attompted to he telephone number Bouleyand break from the ker he was shot. Other | members of the crew did not know of| “Lyretta.’ when traced, turned out Pe RRR TY MOEN Be dana wea ee Leo Mine Loretta I of No. bandits lett the train at a suburb of this | 4827 South Ada Street auld at city. Jhad met “John Thompyon” last Sat- _> urday. She was with Miss Mari President Manaryk's Condition! Kay of N Potomac Avenue, "a Critical girl friend,” and a Mr roca. ‘The PARIS, Feb. 19.--Prof. TG. Masa-|men had made # date to take ther ryk, President of | Cavcho-Slovakta,| 10 the theat Miss Blattner sald, whone iliness wus reported early thie) but had not shown up at the ap 1s in a critical condition, say poloted ine. Heurch is betag imide into i her, He j,/and Tiernan quest hopes of| eres ea iitana® locating a safe dep ox in whieh suffering (roty phlebitis, an inflamma Aye ‘ BAe the Inner meni Of the the all roviber ma © hidden his loo! What Happened Then ? But her sister con- soled him and told him that she loved $185,000 N. Y. Bank Robber Captured in MAN WANTED HERE FOR DARING GRIME Thompson, Alias Tiernan, Ac- cused of Seizing $185,000 From Bank Messenger. | ROBBERY KEPT (QUIET Trust Company Detective Al- leged That Police Hampered | Him in Hunt for Thief. — | | —_— } Detective John Lahey obtained from the District Attorney's office to-day authority to go to Chicago to ask for | | | the extradition | of Jolin ‘Thompson, | alias Tiernan, arrested there at the request of the police of this city Thompson ix charged with complicity tn the robbery of $146,000 in securities and $4,000 in cash from Jamos Muck jenzie, @ messenger of the Chemical | National Bank at Canal and Hudson Jand Grand Streets on Deo, 29 lust, | News of the robbery of the mesven-| ger did not become public until two weeks after the theft When Charles Schneider, private detective, made complaint to former Goy, Whitman that the police were interfering with hiv efforts to catch the thief. Schnel-| der, immediately after the rabbery, was in the employ of the Fidelity and Casualty Company and started Une investigation in thelr behalf by keep-| ‘ing Maokenzie, who had been exoner ated by the bank ‘but allowed to leave its employ, conetanUy under observe tion neider complained to Mr, Whit- that Lahey pre- | |vented him from meeting fol-| }lew.ng Mackenzie. Schneid inti- mated that the police were respo: ble for his own separation from the man others and and surety company According to Mackenzie's story two men confronted him as he came out| of bank in Grand 8 push the muazles of vers in hin lace, tore the money satehel from his hands and ran away. He chased them through the streets, he id, until he was tripped and blocke two other m by Telephone Namber 6 Cle to ¢ ov Special to The Kvening World.) CHICAGO, Feb nan, alias John Thompson Now York Cit for a bank messenger hold-up, was arrested here to-day ‘Tiernan, according to Inspector Lahey of the New York police, who tele- graphed Chief of Detectives Hughes that he be held pending extradition, is sald to have robbed James MoKen- n New York Dee He was house zie tured in & rooming ng, his bride parrels of bootles whiskey A toe juration of property value waa |$ him. Don’t miss ame In Judge Coville, the preaidiag , | Zudie, Gcelted that Innamuch ae the aN bl a B - Ff pelinte Courts have never ruled on the ( i question he” wnuld” hold that. whlake amble in Deauty i: b a pres fe 0. ‘The jury, - Bowater: dniseninad ‘sat whiscay’ bia By Naneibelle Hale. AE no legal’ value, but that the barrels con- | taining it were worth $20 and brought in a verdict of petit larceny, The city officials will be sentenced Thursday. Beginning Monday, Feb: le 21, in The Evening World Chicago TO PREVENT ORDERED BY COMMISSION: cheep amet Attorney General Newton Applies’ GHIGAGDPOLICENP STATE TAKES FIRST ACTION FARE BOOSTS for Injunction to Restrain the En- forcement of 20 Per Cent. on Pas-_ senger Transportation Ordered— To Test Constitutionality of Board. iy Joseph S. Jordan, (Staft Coriespondent of The Evening World.) ALBANY, Feb. 1% against the order of the Interstate ¢ Attorney General ewton has started his Aight Sommerce Commission permitting the railroads in New York State to charge un increase in fares of 20 per cent. w'thin the State, The Attorney General makes the claim that the order js invalid, and that the Federal statute under which the Commission made the order, the Interstate Commerce HARDING NANES TWO MEMBERS OF THE NEW CABINET Announces Appointment of Hughes at St. Augustine and Writes About Daugherty. Fia., p. 18.— Evans Hughes ST. AUGUSTINE, of Cha Selection es Secretary of State by of New York to be was definitely announced to-day President-elect Harding. Mr. Hughes has accepted, Announcement of the appointment followed a conference between Mr. Hughes and the President-elect ‘The office was tendered to Mr, Hughes soon after the election, but acceptance was delayed while Mr. Hughes considered the matter. Mr. Hughes stood smiling at Mr. Harding’s vide as the announcement was made. WASHINGTON, Fob. 19.—In a letter received by Representative Frank Murphy of Ohio from President-elect Harding, made public here to-day, Mr. Harding states definitely that he asked Harry M. Daugherty to r his Cabinet, The letter follows. ust a line to acknowledge yours has en of Feb. 11, with which you send me the round robin signed by eight of the Republican members of Congress of Ohio indorsing Capt. Perey Tetlow for the Seeretaryship of Labor, t cannot promise to tender this office lo Capt. Tetlow, because, in tender- ng a Cabinet position to Mr. Daugh erty I have rather done as much for Ohio in the creation of the official family as [ean be reasonably ex- pected to do. "lt Mr. Tetlow would be glad to come into the service of the Labor Department in 6ome other ition t khould be glad to consider him most ‘avorably, because 1 already hold him n very high esteem,” FIRE IN OLD POST OFFICE. Watchman Discovers Blaze Which Does SiHwht Damage in Cellar, ratchman while making his rounds tn the olf Port Office Building, Uroad way and Park Row yy to-dny discoy ered a mail ba the He called for hely and by the use of the building fre apparatus aulckly put out the blaze A clerk on the ground floor saw smoke and caused a fire alarm to be sent In When the anparatua arrived the fire had been extinguished with slicht damage. Spontaneous combustion was assigned as the causa f storage room in —$—$_—__———_* Act, Is unconstitutional Thege points are sot forth in Mr Newton's bill of complaint filed fa the United States District Court at Norwich, in an action to enjon the interstate Commission from enforcing the increased rate oF- der, The action is the first step of Mr. Newton to fu@ve a review in the United States Sup! Court of the determination of the commiss on Commerce ne The allegation of the Attorney Gen= eral is that “there were no facts be- fore the Interstate Commerce Com: mission justifying Its report, find+ ings and order, and that the record wholly lacks any information for the inaking of such report, findings and order.” It is further charged in the bill of complaint that t order itself and | the provisions of the Interstate Com- |merce act under which the commis- sion attempted to sanction the im creaxe violate the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in that they invade powers reserved to the State to regulate intrastate eom- meres; the fifth amendment by im- pairing the obligation of the con- tracts existing between the State and theratiroads; article 1, section 9% clause 4 of the same instrument in that they impose a capitation and direct tax without the apportionment required, a8 well as other constitu. tional provisions designed to safe- guard purely Slate governmeutal functions. ‘ The Federal court is requested, at the same time, to restrain the Inter- state Commerce Commission from in- stituting actions agalnat the railroads for the collection of penalties for vio~ lation of the order to increase pas- senger fares, “L feel confident of success in this action,” daid Attorney General New- ton to-day y confidence is based on an exhwustive study of the uase and at appreciation of the injustice this rate increase will impose upon the travelling public, I do not mean to hold out any false hopes to the public by this expression of faith, for no one appreciates more thun I do | that this is a real lawsuit, but T am Dersuaded that the State hus built up m convincing case, ortly after the increased fare r made by the Interstate ‘commerce Commission declared it was my intention to carry the case to | the United States Supreme Court for | determination. ‘The aim of the press {ent action is to obtain thig final dee | claion 48 soon as possible.” FORECAST: SNOW OR RAIN! Weather tndt Mush To-Night sw and Vo-Morrow, following ry menage was "i by the weather bureay from Washington storm warning. 9 A.M, Texas cows. strong northerly wind to moderate galc. to-day amd tor night, Freeging to the vonst Gunday morning. ‘The indications for this vielnity to night @nd to-morrow are an0w or Fralm. } ime tvin ay ‘Advisery northwes 4